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Meaning of BLACK OUT

Pronunciation:  blak awt

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 Definition: 
  1. [v]  lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
  2. [v]  suppress by censorship; of reporting, as for political reasons
  3. [v]  darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
  4. [v]  obliterate or extinguish, of lights; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"
 
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 Synonyms: blacken out, pass out, zonk out
 
 See Also: change state, conk, darken, edit, extinguish, faint, quench, redact, swoon, turn

 

 

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 Related Terms: annul, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, blacken, block the light, blot out, brown, cancel, cast a shadow, censor, cloud, cloud over, crap out, darken, darken over, delete, dim, dim out, drop, eclipse, efface, encloud, encompass with shadow, expunge, faint, fall senseless, gloom, gray out, hugger-mugger, hush, hush up, hush-hush, keel over, kill, muffle, murk, obfuscate, obliterate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pass out, quash, repress, shade, shadow, shush, sit on, smother, somber, squash, squelch, stifle, succumb, suppress, swoon, wipe out
 

 

 

 

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